Best Caramel Bars Recipe
Get excited for your new dessert obsession: Carmel Bars! These delicious oatmeal caramel chocolate bars are not only super easy to whip up, but they also taste absolutely divine! Seriously, this is the BEST dessert bar recipe you’ll ever try—perfectly melt-in-your-mouth goodness that still holds together when you take a bite! Trust us, you won’t be able to resist! Who’s ready to get baking?
Servings 12 bars
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar packed
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter melted
- 2 Tablespoons butter melted
- 14 oz bag of caramels, soft unwrapped
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350°F.In medium bowl, combined flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda, salt and butter. Mix well.
- Reserve 2/3 cup and set is aside. Press remaining batter on the bottom of 13×9 inch pan. Bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Meanwhile, in a non-stick skillet, melt caramels and cream until smooth.
- Sprinkle baked crust with chocolate chips.
- Pour melted caramel mixture over the choclate chips.
- Sprinkle with reserved 2/3 cup crust crumbs.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until almost firm.
- Bars will be slightly soft in the middle when removed from the oven, but will set as they cool.